Ane Catherine "Anna" Sterky, née

NEE

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 Nielsen (1856–1939) Danish-Swedish politician (Social Democrat), trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 organiser, feminist and editor

Editing

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Sterky worked as a seamstress

Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers,...

 in Denmark, were she was active in the Danish trade union movement. In 1891, she moved to Sweden with the Swedish trade union organiser Fredrik Sterky

Fredrik Sterky

Fredrik Sterky was an early Swedish Social Democrat and trade union organizer. Fredrik Sterky co-founded and was chairman of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation from 1898. He was also the editor of Ny Tid....

, with whom she had a relationship; they never married, but she used his surname. She was a pioneer in her work to build up trade unions for women, and she also worked for the creation of a social democratic women's group within the party. She was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

 from 1900 to 1925, chairwoman of the Women's Trade Union

Women's Trade Union

The Women's Trade Union was a trade union in Sweden organizing female workers between 1902 and 1909. Its members were generally seamstresses, but the union also had a presence in other women-dominated sectors. In the year of its foundation, the union had 642 members...

 1902-1907, editor of the paper Morgonbris 1904-1909 and honorary chairwoman of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden 1920-1925.